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authorGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>2014-08-08 19:23:07 +0400
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2014-08-19 12:02:40 +0400
commitb22ae40ef2e7847ddbd802d1a887188e113675f3 (patch)
tree25d3859be494db9c22e9a90898e8a4262a205540 /Documentation/kbuild
parent7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9 (diff)
downloadlinux-b22ae40ef2e7847ddbd802d1a887188e113675f3.tar.xz
Documentation: kbuild: Remove obsolete include/asm symlink step
As of commit f7f16b7799ed68654850ab340ef812895aebcf4c ("kbuild: drop include/asm"), the include/asm symlink is no longer created. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 764f5991a3fc..a445e1c8828e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -818,17 +818,16 @@ a few targets.
When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
1) Configuration of the kernel => produce .config
2) Store kernel version in include/linux/version.h
-3) Symlink include/asm to include/asm-$(ARCH)
-4) Updating all other prerequisites to the target prepare:
+3) Updating all other prerequisites to the target prepare:
- Additional prerequisites are specified in arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile
-5) Recursively descend down in all directories listed in
+4) Recursively descend down in all directories listed in
init-* core* drivers-* net-* libs-* and build all targets.
- The values of the above variables are expanded in arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
-6) All object files are then linked and the resulting file vmlinux is
+5) All object files are then linked and the resulting file vmlinux is
located at the root of the obj tree.
The very first objects linked are listed in head-y, assigned by
arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
-7) Finally, the architecture-specific part does any required post processing
+6) Finally, the architecture-specific part does any required post processing
and builds the final bootimage.
- This includes building boot records
- Preparing initrd images and the like